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...conversation about the best means to ensure global access—particularly in the developing world—to the fruits of medical research performed within the academic community. This was accompanied by a call to deliver essential medicines to the developing world at a symposium held at Harvard Law School this week. Harvard should maintain momentum in its quest for new therapies and new strategies aimed at their broad dissemination especially to those in greatest need...
...money for in an overall capital perspective,” Flahive said. “The underwriters were in a difficult environment and they did the best they could. In hindsight, everything’s 20-20.” He also said that if rates fall dramatically, the law governing tax-exempt debt financing gives issuers one opportunity to pay off their debt and reissue the bonds at the lower rate.‘THE SUMMERS SWAP’While documentation of the $1.5 billion bond sale could not be obtained because the sale was taxable, a prospectus...
...Harvard Law School Library has established the Morris L. Cohen Fellowship in American Legal Bibliography and History, which intends to fund expenses for scholars who must travel to Harvard to access the Library’s Special Collections. Close to 40 percent of the graduate students who contact the Library hoping to consult the materials in Special Collections are not affiliated with Harvard, according to David R. Warrington, the Special Collections librarian. The department houses nearly 2,000 feet of linear manuscript, more than 200,000 rare books, and over 70,000 visual images. “The fellowship will...
...Across America, 15,000 primates serve human masters as exotic pets. Only 20 states prohibit the practice, and there is no federal law against it. Given that primates often live beyond 50 years of age, many of these simian pets will be resold repeatedly, journeying in airplane holds across the country to enter new and unfamiliar homes...
...there are other ways to get around the law as well. Some people tinker with birth certificates; others pay bribes, though that may not always work. Yuri, who also declined to give his last name, had a family friend who was a colonel. "He signed a medical certificate which says that I am weakened from my childhood meningitis," he says. "It's valid until I turn 27." He didn't have to pay a thing. But he says he knows friends in Moscow that paid $10,000 for similar papers. "Draft-dodging is a national pastime," says Alexander Golts...